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This is a video of a genet (not actually a cat, just CATLIKE) catching a ride on an endangered black rhino in Africa. The video also contains several still pictures of genets riding other rhinos and buffaloes. It serves as proof that genets, despite their seemingly small size... / Continue →

Note: This article was originally published in 2009 but since the internet is like a roller coaster it's going back around again with its hands in the air, screaming.
Elisabeth Beucher's Green Warrior Shower Curtain was designed to help control your water consumption by slow... / Continue →

This is a hummingbird feeder that's incorporated into a $80 flowery mask. You leave it outside for awhile to let the birds get used to it, then put that sucker on one day and sit still while the hummers come to feed right between your eyes. INTENSE! Reminds me of the time I ... / Continue →

This is the pupae stage of the Dynastor darius butterfly. It looks uncannily like a viper's head, and even moves to appear its going to strike when potential predators are around. Me? I have no natural defenses and get picked on all the time. If I were a butterfly my parent... / Continue →

Seen here looking like it's trying to hump a giant lava rock, this is some very rare underwater footage (it would have been even rarer if it were above water) of a giant squid giving birth. I'm not even entirely sure I know what I'm looking at. Of these thousands of babies, o... / Continue →

This is a video captured by Mauricio Hoyos near Guadalupe Island starring Deep Blue, a 20+ foot female great white shark that's estimated to be over 50 years old. In this video, she's heavily pregnant, making her even larger. Admittedly, that guy that keeps swimming out of th... / Continue →

This is a video of the mirror that French photographer Xavier Hubert Brierre set up in Gabon, (on the Atlantic coast of equatorial Africa), to capture the reactions of passing animals. The footage includes gorillas, a bunch of chimps, a mandrill, a couple leopards, a couple bi... / Continue →

This is Cherax pulcher, a newly described species of crayfish from Indonesia. It looks like Mother Nature painted it with a picture of a beautiful nebula. You think she did it at one of those wine and painting parties I see so many pictures of in my Facebook minifeed? Maybe.... / Continue →

This is a beautiful video documenting some of the previously unseen deep sea creatures discovered off the coast of Puerto Rico. There are some straight up aliens in the mix. Things I guarantee Mother Nature doesn't even remember making. 'Wait -- I invented that?' I imagine h... / Continue →

Note: Video after the jump in case you wanted to call fake. Full-res version HERE.
Because Mother Nature never ceases to find new ways to impress/terrify, this is a shot of a rainbow and a tornado captured by the storm chasing group Basehunters. As tempting as the pot of gol... / Continue →